Australia: Kangaroo Flag

Last modified: 2008-09-27 by jonathan dixon
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• Boxing Kangaroo flag
• Variant including the Southern Cross
• National Flag with Kangaroo
• Another Kangaroo flag

See also:

• Australia
• Other Australian flags

Boxing Kangaroo

image by Ralph Kelly

image by Jorge Candeias

A variation of the Boxing Kangaroo that includes the Southern Cross in its design. I had never seen this before. Is it used?
Jorge Candeias, 01 June 1999

I think I have seen Boxing Kangaroo flags with the SC, I'm not sure. I wouldn't be at all surprised if some manufacturers included it, we love a good Southern Cross down here. Again, there's no official design specifications for the flag so there are bound to be variations, although the first one on this page is the commonly seen one. On the subject of usage, I don't know about other Aussies on the list, but I haven't seen a Boxing Kangaroo flag of any kind for a while, maybe the odd one at a sporting match.
Dylan Crawfoot, 01 June 1999

There is another variant with a less cartoonish kangaroo facing the fly with a gold southern cross similar to that on the national flag, in the fly.
Nozomi Kariyasu and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg September 2000

In the highlights of the 2006-7 Ashes series (Australia v England in cricket), as well as the national flag and the green and gold variant, I saw quite a few boxing kangaroo flags. Most of them seem to be a version similar to that described by Nozomi and Peter Hans, with the kangaroo in the hoist facing a yellow southern cross in the fly. In this case, the southern cross is mainly in the top part of the fly, with the word AUSTRALIA appearing below and slightly flywards.
Jonathan Dixon, 4 December 2006

National Flag with Kangaroo

During the Olympic Sabre final, I sawa a variant on the Boxing Kangaroo theme. It was the Australian flag with the Southern Cross slightly displaced to the left as to permit the addition of a yellow kangaroo from the waist up, facing the hoist. I haven't seen any others exactly like it, but it wasn't homemade.
Marc Pasquin, 25 September 2000

At the triathlon, there was someone waving an Australian flag with a boxing kangaroo, and 'smudges' of green around the edges.
Jonathan Dixon, 16 September 2000